System Environment/Base

mkinitrd: Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules.

Name:mkinitrd Vendor:Scientific Linux
Version:4.2.1.6 License:GPL
Release:1 URL:
Summary
Mkinitrd creates filesystem images for use as initial ramdisk (initrd) images. These ramdisk images are often used to preload the block device modules (SCSI or RAID) needed to access the root filesystem. In other words, generic kernels can be built without drivers for any SCSI adapters which load the SCSI driver as a module. Since the kernel needs to read those modules, but in this case it isn't able to address the SCSI adapter, an initial ramdisk is used. The initial ramdisk is loaded by the operating system loader (normally LILO) and is available to the kernel as soon as the ramdisk is loaded. The ramdisk image loads the proper SCSI adapter and allows the kernel to mount the root filesystem. The mkinitrd program creates such a ramdisk using information found in the /etc/modules.conf file.

Arch: i386

Download:mkinitrd-4.2.1.6-1.i386.rpm
Build Date:Fri Oct 7 23:55:23 2005
Packager:
Size:125 KiB

Changelog

* Mon Aug 29 19:00:00 2005 Peter Jones <pjones{%}redhat{*}com> - 4.2.1.5-1
- More fixes for duplicate arguments (#147222)
* Mon Apr 4 19:00:00 2005 Peter Jones <pjones{%}redhat{*}com> - 4.2.1.5-1
- Don't consolidate duplicates in "--args" (#147222)
* Fri Apr 1 18:00:00 2005 Peter Jones <pjones{%}redhat{*}com> - 4.2.1.4-1
- close /init just after reading the file, instead of after runStartup()
  finishes, so it gets closed before we exec() /sbin/init . (#145601)

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